It wasn’t until mid-year June 2018 that Anas’ exposé brought the football circles to it’s knees following a massive undercover of deep-seated corruption practices in the game.

This revelation, however, had heads rolling on different sides of the table, four months after the exposé, one of the notable names on the lips and minds of the masses was the former GFA president, Kwesi Nyantakyi, who was pictured taking $65,000 (£48,000) from an undercover reporter as many felt he had reached a cult figure status.

Mr. Nyantakyi was been banned for life from all football-related activities by FIFA in October 2018.

According to reports from Kumasi-based, Nhyira FM Sports, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has reduced Kwesi Nyantakyi’s life ban to 12 years.

The ban has been reduced following a successful appeal by the former Ghana Football Association (GFA) boss.

Prior to his ban, he served as GFA President for 13 years, WAFU president, vice-president of CAF, and a member of the FIFA Council.

Aside from the ban, he was fined 500,000 Swiss francs (£390,000).

Kwesi Nyantakyi was banned for life from all football activities after breaking FIFA’s bribery and corruption rules.

Speaking for the first time after the exposé, Kwesi Nyantakyi made several claims. He claims that Anas’s Tiger Eye is a criminal organization and likened them to ISIS.

He also claims that Anas asked him for $400,000 to drop the case, and later reduced it to $150,000

“Anas asked for $400,000 and later reduced it to $150,000. They are doing the thing for money and not for national interest”

“Tiger Eye PI is a criminal organization that behaves like ISIS. They have no license to behave like they do, recording people with reckless abandon and destroying reputations.”

Kwesi Nyantakyi also revealed that he never met Anas face to face, he only met the late journalist Ahmed.

“That’s how they work. You only meet Ahmed, and then later Anas claims credit. The only person I met in Dubai was Ahmed.”

Kwesi Nyantakyi claimed that his enemies in Ghana football contributed and paid Anas $400,000 for the Number 12 documentary that brought him down last year.

“People at the FA who wanted to see my back sponsored Anas exposé with $400,000 to do what they did,” he told Net 2 television

“Yes, it was $400,000. What he did was a sponsored. The so-called investigation.”

Nyantakyi has insisted the footage has been doctored to falsely incriminate him.

The adjudicatory chamber of Fifa’s ethics committee said the ban for life applied to “all football-related activities at both national and international level”.

The mother of two appeared on a late night TV show on Tuesday to express support her better half who has been handed a life ban from all football activities and a hefty fine by FIFA for breaking its code of ethics.

Christine-Marie feels the former FIFA Council member has been treated unfairly because there are no criminal charges against him.



”My pain is that Ghanaians should exercise patience. Kwesi is not running away; he’s here. If the court or if the processes find Kwesi guilty, he’s available to face the consequences,” she said on Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana programme.

”But until then, the name-calling, the insults, the jubilation and the celebrations that he’s down, I am begging and pleading that we should all hold our horses and wait.

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”Time will tell; he’s ready to face any consequences.

”He says if I have done something wrong; let the law take its course. If he’s found innocent we give glory to God; so we are ready for any consequences.”

She later suggested that her husband wasn’t himself.

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“They brought $40,000 first; and then later on, they brought $60,000 dollars.



“I have not gathered the courage to watch the full video, because the small that I watched, I knew that the way he is talking; that is not my husband; something might have gone wrong,” she bemoaned.

When the host asked if he could have been under a spell or some incantations, she responded in the affirmative.